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Why We Send Our Children to School
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| And I try to catch that just as you hear it, lest you think you're going to get a pre-recorded show. | |
| It's a useless message, and this is my daily announcement of its uselessness. | |
| Okay, welcome to the show. | |
| I'm Dennis Prager. | |
| I have good news. | |
| What do you think of that? | |
| I told it to the living martyr, who, like Oscar the Grouch, does not thrive on good news. | |
| By the way, Oscar the Grouch was my favorite Sesame Street character. | |
| Do you know that when I was in graduate school, I watched Sesame Street before going to school every day? | |
| I can tell you all the characters, even Mr. Snuffleupagus, whom only Big Bird knew. | |
| All right? | |
| Just for the record, folks, I know that that comes somewhat as a surprise. | |
| I thought the program was hilarious. | |
| In the best sense, not in a mocking way. | |
| At any rate, here it is. | |
| It's from the Daily Mail. | |
| Number of children being homeschooled doubles to 5 million since beginning of the pandemic, with 11% of families now teaching at home. | |
| That is really, really good news. | |
| The only excuse you can have... | |
| For sending your child to a regular private or public school in most of this country is that you, your family, would enter poverty or quasi-poverty if you did so. | |
| There is one other, to be honest, there is one other excuse. | |
| You want your child to learn that America is essentially a rotten country. | |
| You want your child to learn that there's no such thing as a boy or a girl. | |
| Okay, then there's every good reason for you to send your child to school. | |
| You don't want your child to learn a damn thing other than left-wing propaganda. | |
| Then... | |
| You have very reason to send your children to a regular school in this country. | |
| The number of U.S. children being homeschooled has doubled since the start of the pandemic, from roughly 2.5 to 5 million, representing 11% of households nationwide now homeschooling their children. | |
| The reasons are varied, researchers say, but overall the shift represents a loss of faith in America's public school system. | |
| By the way, I don't know why they say that. | |
| It's also a private school system. | |
| It's an odd thing. | |
| People, obviously, if people had faith in private schools, they'd send them to private schools. | |
| The elite private schools are at least as bad as the public schools. | |
| At least as bad. | |
| They're taught by anti-American, anti-truth teachers. | |
| Led by anti-truth principles. | |
| Did I tell you? | |
| Yes, I did. | |
| I told you yesterday. | |
| Things that the head of the teachers' union in Los Angeles, Cecily Maillard Cruz. | |
| And this is from Los Angeles Magazine. | |
| What was the precious quote that we got from her from this very, very long article? | |
| The woman is essentially... | |
| She would not use the term. | |
| She would be indistinguishable from what was known in the old days as a communist. | |
| The stuff that she advocates teaching... | |
| The woman hates this country. | |
| The union hates this country. | |
| They're ruining your children. | |
| And people do it. | |
| Oh, that's right. | |
| right. | |
| This is really something. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| Our kids didn't lose anything. | |
| It's okay that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. | |
| They learned resilience. | |
| They learned survival. | |
| They learned critical thinking skills. | |
| They know the difference between a riot and a protest. | |
| They know the words insurrection and coup. | |
| So that's what they want. | |
| They don't care if your child knows a times table. | |
| Times table, that's white supremacy, to insist on mathematical, basic math knowledge. | |
| But to know the difference between a riot and a protest, and to know the words insurrection and coup, that's what we want your children to know. | |
| And you keep sending your children there. | |
| Now, I love clarity and honesty. | |